I am trying to modernize the infrastructure of a HTTP web service. I want to update the web server to something more recent and secure, but I have to maintain compatibility with some legacy devices in the field that are unable to connect using TLSv1.2.
The web server I am using is httpd version 2.4.56 running on a Docker container with Alpine Linux (for reference the image is httpd:2.4.56-alpine3.17).
I tried enabling TLSv1.1 ciphers changing the default httpd-ssl.conf file with this lines:
SSLCipherSuite ALL:@SECLEVEL=1
SSLProxyCipherSuite ALL:@SECLEVEL=1
The SSLProtocol and SSLProxyProtocol directives are both set to all -SSLv3.
After that I changed /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf by adding at the top
openssl_conf = default_conf
and
[default_conf]
ssl_conf = ssl_sect
[ssl_sect]
system_default = system_default_sect
[system_default_sect]
MinProtocol = TLSv1.1
CipherString = DEFAULT@SECLEVEL=1
[openssl_init]
providers = provider_sect
after the [ new_oids ] section.
To test the result I used the command nmap -script ssl-enum-ciphers -p 9443 localhost and obtained the following result:
PORT STATE SERVICE
9443/tcp open tungsten-https
| ssl-enum-ciphers:
| TLSv1.2:
| ciphers:
| TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM_8 (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_ARIA_256_GCM_SHA384 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_ARIA_256_GCM_SHA384 (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8 (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_ARIA_128_GCM_SHA256 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_ARIA_128_GCM_SHA256 (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA384 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA256 (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_128_CBC_SHA256 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_128_CBC_SHA256 (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_128_CBC_SHA (dh 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM_8 (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_ARIA_256_GCM_SHA384 (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8 (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_ARIA_128_GCM_SHA256 (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA256 (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256 (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_128_CBC_SHA256 (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (rsa 2048) - A
| TLS_RSA_WITH_CAMELLIA_128_CBC_SHA (rsa 2048) - A
| compressors:
| NULL
| cipher preference: server
| TLSv1.3:
| ciphers:
| TLS_AKE_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_AKE_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| TLS_AKE_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (ecdh_x25519) - A
| cipher preference: server
|_ least strength: A
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.41 seconds
so, clearly I am missing something, as I expected some TLSv1.1 ciphers to show up.
I also tried inserting some syntax errors to see if the openssl.cnf file is read correctly and it seems that the configuration is ignored even if i can find it browsing the container filesystem.
